I just saw this film and was wondering about some historically related questions: Why did they have to sleep with their necks up on those raised cushions? What's the reasoning for wearing a cushion on...
In the most haunted tv series, in the opening credits, it shows a collection of 2-3 stone pyramids, which i believe to be within a graveyard...i have seen another programs with the same pyramids, but...
Every Victoria Cross is supposed to have special markings on to prevent them being forged. Does anyone know how to tell what they are? Go on! Tell us! I'm not going to forge any but it's fascinating...
If you were able to anonymously put yourself back in time at any date in any scenario and could make one change to events e.g. maybe move the bomb next to Hitler during his attempted assassination...
I faintly remember something about an airport, in America I think, which because of some powercut, the closure of another airport or some other problem had a huge back up of flights to land and they...
France entering the American was of Indepedence on the American side caused Britian to change it's strategy the American most responsible for this diplomatic triumoh was?
A pre- Columbian population center, Chokia, located in southern Illinois near present day St. Louis, was the capital of a North American empire in the Native American period known as?
These days we are used to the idea of money devaluing over a short period of time. House prices are a pretty good yardstick of this. Is this rapid devaluing a new phenomenen or has it always been so?...
If I could travel back in time when would I start to have difficulty understanding what people were saying? When would English as we know it become incomprehensible - bearing in mind I had problems...
I have been told of an entry in a journal of 1880 listing the officers, etc. of the first Oddfellows Society in Ribchest/Longridge. One of them is James Hesmondhalgh, NG. Does anyone know what the NG...
Before America declared its independence in the 18th century, and before George Washington became the country's first President, did the country have a monarchy? And if so did it have the same monachy...